"Doyle is open to tolls to help fund roads" . . . great idea or greatest idea?

[lutefisk]

Once they started installing those stop-and-go lights I knew we were losing our charm.

http://www.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/39787612.html

[Sabien]

1. "stop and go lights"

are rapidly disappearing. They're installing roundabouts all over the state, which can be a good thing - IF YOU TEACH PEOPLE HOW TO NAVIGATE THEM!

1. Look and Yield, don't stop if there isn't a car approaching you in the roundabout.
2. Signal your right blinker before leaving the roundabout.

Those 2 things would make them so much easier to get through, but the state is sticking these things all over without teaching it's residents to navigate through them.

[mockmonkey]

6. My major complaint about roundabouts is

when they are near an area that has a lot of traffic during a shift change and most traffic is going (East to West) and you're going (North to South) you don't stand a chance to get into the roundabout because it's just a continuous flow of traffic. I've learned to avoid those areas now.

[TheMightyFavog]

2. Toll roads?

We'd become like Delaware! Or worse: Illinois! :scared:

[lutefisk]

3. I just can't picture a 1972 Ford pickup with "Farm" license plates with an I-PASS mounted to it.

People from Illinois might start calling us "fwbs".

If the state is that hard up, how about selling the Southernmost 5 miles of the state to Illinois. Can't really tell the difference, anyway.

[CatholicEdHead]

4. Horrible idea

that is one thing I like in the Upper Midwest (WI, MN, IA, ND, SD), that you can travel anywhere and not pay a thing to drive on the roads.

I was down in KS and OK last week and I was not impressed by the toll roads down there.

[sybylla]

5. agreed

It would just be one more reason not to visit those places already a pain in the ass to visit.